Parsha Re’eh – Apostolic Readings, Commentary, and Videos

Readings

• Deuteronomy 11:26-12:19
  • Matthew 7:15-23
  • Acts 9:1-20
  • Acts 11:1-18
  • 1 Timothy 6:13-16
• Deuteronomy 12:20-14:29
  • John 6:48-66
  • Romans 14:1-4
  • 1 Corinthians 10:14-33
  • 1 Timothy 6:3-5,20-21
  • Revelation 2:12-29
• Deuteronomy 15:1-16:17
  • John 4:34-38
  • John 8:31-38
  • Colossians 3:1-17
  • 1 Timothy 6:6-12,17-19
  • James 2:14-26
  • Revelation 19:6-9

Additional Readings

• Soil from Stone
• American Torah

Videos Related to Parsha Re’eh

• Don’t Go Back to Egypt! – Just like the Christian church, ancient Israel continued to faithfully serve God so long as the first generation of believers lived. As soon as that generation died, they slipped into general apostacy. Joshua 24:31
• Who Understands Justice for the Poor? – A righteous man truly understands what it means to ensure justice for the poor, the widow, and the orphan, but a wicked man, even though he might toss out a lot of fine sounding words, doesn’t have a clue what justice even means. In order to know who understands justice, we need to know who is righteous and who is wicked.
• Who Are the Weak in Faith in Romans 14:1? – Are the “weak in faith” those people who believe trying to obey the Law or in keeping those commandments that are distinctively “Jewish”? Or are they people who are so afraid of breaking an actual commandment that they add all kinds of new rules just to be safe?
• What Needs to Be Removed Prior to Passover and Unleavened Bread? – There are two Hebrew words in Exodus 12:15 that define what you need to remove from your home for Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread: chometz and seor.
• Shavuot: God’s Independence Day – Shavuot is a bit of an oddball among God’s feast days. It’s not clear from the biblical text exactly what it’s about, but there are some amazing parallels with the Exodus that give us some big clues.
• Colossians 2, the Sabbath, and God’s Appointed Times – This passage is often interpreted to mean God doesn’t care if his people keep any of his appointed times (Sabbath, Passover, etc.), but is that really a reasonable interpretation? Can God’s commandments be called “philosophy and empty deceit”?

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